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Early Detection and Diagnosis Primer Award

Cancer Research UK

Key information

Career level

Early career researcher

Mid-career researcher

Established independent researcher

Non-clinical researcher

Clinician

Research area

Early diagnosis

Final submission

18 September 2025

Committee review

November 2025

Funding period

Up to 1 year

Funding amount

Up to £100k

Supports researchers at all stages to develop early, novel and outside-the-box ideas and collaborations to build and make progress in the ED&D field.

Scientific remit

With this award, we're challenging you to consider how you can utilise skills and techniques in innovative ways to accelerate ED&D research. Primer Awards provide seed funding to develop new relationships, ideas and lines of research, and the generation of pilot data.

The award aims to encourage scientists at all career stages to engage with the early detection and diagnosis of cancer field. It will support new and exploratory research ideas and/or pilot studies of high scientific risk and potential reward. It supports the development of new partnerships and exploration of highly novel concepts, involving researchers from any research area, including from non-traditional cancer fields.

Areas that could be considered include:

Development of novel technology to address an area of need in the ED&D of cancer field
Development or modification of existing technology from other research fields or sectors, to be applied to an early detection and diagnosis of cancer question
Innovative and ‘out-of-the-box’ lines of investigation within ED&D
Establishment and development of new collaborations or consortia to tackle an ED&D area of need
Bringing individuals and skillsets into ED&D which have not previously been applied there
Preliminary research to establish proof of principle in any area of ED&D remit

Funding can contribute towards generating pilot data for a new and exciting idea, establishing and developing new collaborations, testing a new technology or using an existing technology in an innovative way. We envisage that data generated or collaborations established through a Primer Award will form the basis for a more extensive future project within ED&D.

Out of remit

Proposals for research in these fields are likely to be ineligible for this funding scheme:

Research which does not have any line-of-sight to impact on early detection – this may be eligible for our discovery research funding opportunities
Research that focuses on population-level trials of screening approaches – this may be eligible for our prevention and population research committe

If you are unsure which funding scheme is most appropriate for your research, please get in touch to discuss your proposal.

Early Detection and Diagnosis Research Committee

What is funded

The award will provide up to 1 year of flexible seed funding up to £100k. Funding could cover:

Salaries for postdocs or technical staff
Experimental expenses
Associated running expenses
Equipment
Collaborative travel and networking costs
Training courses
People exchange

We are also giving applicants to this funding scheme the opportunity to opt-in to a new multi-journal pilot project on Registered Reports.

Specialties

Cancer

Eligibility Requirements

To stimulate and develop the early detection and diagnosis (ED&D) field, we're encouraging early-career researchers, scientists new to ED&D and/or cancer research, as well as established ED&D researchers to apply for Primer Awards.

You should:

Have some postdoctoral experience or equivalent
Be scientists, clinicians or healthcare workers in UK universities, medical schools, hospitals, or research institutes

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Cancer Research UK

Sponsor Type: Corporate/Non-Profit

Address: 2 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQ.

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